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Waterfront Real Estate Sales on the Eastside Finishing up Strong in ’10

Waterfront real estate sales on the Eastside refused to go quietly into the winter, with seven significant sales of waterfront homes in November. This number is up from the five homes sold last month on the waterfront.

More significantly, the total waterfront home sales this year are up almost 50% over 2009, with 90 recorded so far.

Waterfront sales this month started with a $375k home in Kenmore on the Sammamish River, with access to Lake Washington. Moving on to true lakefront, a 1000 square foot house on W. Lake Sammamish sold for $685,000. With 65 feet of lake frontage, this is about as inexpensive as Bellevue waterfront homes go.

On Bellevue’s Phantom Lake, a beautiful Cape Cod style home sold for $1.1 million. Moving up to $1.3 million, a gated estate sold on the Sammamish side of Lake Samm. Back on Lake Washington, a Kennydale home sold for $1.4 million after 6 months on the market.

The top two sales of the month started back on the Bellevue side of Lake Samm, a property with a gorgeous 140 feet of waterfront that closed at $1.6 million. At $3.5 million, a waterfront estate in Medina closed out the month. The 33,000 sq foot lot accomodates almost 150 feet of waterfront on the Fairweather Bay side of Evergreen Point (across from Hunts Point).